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About Columbian centinel. (Augusta, Ga.) 18??-???? | View Entire Issue (Feb. 4, 1809)
The Subscriber i lias For Sale, in addition to his former Stock, LADIES Tortoise, Square, Fancy, Oral and Eagle-top COMBS, Ditto Mock do. do. Do. Long and Half, do. 'l op, Ivory, Pearl, Buffaloe 8t horn do. Gentlemen's Mahogany, and Morocco Dressing Cases, A gr:at variety of Watch Chains, Seals :.nd Keys, Sell, 01-Books Stationary. also Chi the River and daily expected, Silver TEA-SPOONS, and An Extensive Assortment of Elegant .\ctj Eashiancd JEWELRY, And a Cl real Variety of Warranted BOOTS, SHOES, PUMPS & SLIPPERS, Os nary desert/uion. All of which are offered on inviting ''terms, lor cash or rnoDUCi:. Gjo : S. Houston. December 24. 75 RICHMOND Volin liter 1) /'(i mom - * O YOU are hereby notified to at tend at Calftrey and Austin's prt< isely ht 7 o’clock, on SATURDAY EVEN ING the 4th of February. Punctual Attendance of ail the members is re quested on particular business. By order of the Lieut, commanding. Geo: S. Houston, Sc fry. January 2 1. 79 Administrator' 9 s Sale WILL BE SOLD, COV Saturday the fourth day of March next , at Waynesboeough, in Burke county , ALL the personal property of Thomas Rodgers, late of said county, deceased, for the benefit of th« heirs Mild creditors. James Hicks, Adm'r. January 21. * 79 FOR SALE, A likely Negro Boy, ABOUT eighteen years of age; | he is a good Ostler and House servant, i Cash or cotton will be received in i payment. Thomas Stokes. January 21. * 79 _____ | State of Tennessee, MERO DISTRICT. COURT UE EQUITY , November Term.... 1801. BETWEEN John Ovet ton, Complainant, »t.d Andrew Jackson, John Allison , William Allison, Alexander Allison, I Peggy Allison , | 1 Sally Allison, FDefis. Lln Equity.! Isbcl Allison, iV J Jane Allison, Heirs and divisees of David Allison, deceased. THIS day comes the com plainant by his counsel, and it appear ing satisfactorily to the court here, that the said defendants John, William, Alexander, Peggy, Sally, Isbel and j Jane, heirs and devisees of David Alli son, deceased, are residents in the State of Georgia, whereby the 01 dinary pro cess of this court cannot be served upon them. Therefore, on the motion of the said complainant by his counsel, IT IS ORDERED, that publication be forthwith made in some one Gazette, published in the town of Augusta, iu the said State of Georgia, commanding the said defendants to be and appear here, on the second Monday in May next, and answer the complainants said bill ol complaint, otherwise the same shall be taken for confesso against them. Teste. B. Searcy, c. >i. c. l. u. a. January 21. 79_ BLANKS of every description executed at this office, with neatness and dispatch. 1 ■ 1 11 if 1 «■■!■■■ irinwn im iii iumi • CONGRESS. SENATE. Monday, January 16, 1809. A bill making further provision for the corfs es engineers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House (f Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, That so much of the 27th section of the act, en titled “ an act fixing the military peace establishment of the United States,” as provides that the corps of engineer* shall be stationed *t West Point, in the state of New-Yoik, shad from and after thejst day of next, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and there after the tuid corps of engineers consti tuting the military academy, shall be re moved under he direction of the Presi dent es the United States, from West Point, and stationed at Washington, in the district of Columbia. Mr. Mitch ill moved to strike out th<* latter member of the section, and in assigning his reasons for the motion, tpokc in terms of high encomium on the excellency of the military academy, the learning ol die professors, and the , acquirements of the students. He de clared himself on* of its warmest friends, and professed his willingness to appropriate funds for ita better en dowment. But he wished it to remain at West Point, a place f,’.wsou% in the history of the revolution, and which be hoped would be continued as the head quarters of tHwtics and engineering.— Mr. MitchiH extolled the healthiness of that charming spot, and dwelt with em phttßis on its scenery, wherein the beau tiful, the picturesque, and the sublime are incomparably blended. He pointed out the singular fitness of the place for practical exercises, both on land and water, and calculated to render cadets familiar el a s*fe and easy rate, not on ly with perspective, drawing and geo metry, but with the use of field pieces, cannon, howitzers and mortars. West Point, he .aid, was that precious spot where the teachers and the pupils were in the proper situation between seclu sion and society. They could have the one or the oth.r as they pleased, and he should consider it as »n injudicious vote to remove this hopeful seminary, from the celebrated scut where it had so long existed, and had thriven so well, to the less auspicious place contemplat ed in the bill. H« hoped the fortress which had resisted the treason of one of the most distinguished revolutionary commanders, would be continued as j the centre of military science, and be . the resort of all the young martial spi rits who visit the temple of science on their journey to the field of glory. On the question for striking out, the motion was negatived, to wit: j Yeas—-Messrs. Gillman, Goodrich, ! Hiilhouse, Howland, Kitchel, Mathew son, Mitcliill, Parker, Robinson, Smith, of Maryland, Smith, of N. Y. Turn er—l 2. Nays— Messrs. Anderson, Bayard, Bradley, Condit, Crawford, Franklin/1 Gaillaircl, Gregg, Meigs, Milleclge, 1 Moore, Pope, Smith, of Ten. Sumter, ahurston, White—lS. the two millions. Gen. Smith, of Maryland, said, that es our government was predicated upon the will of the people, it was the duty I ol government to give to the people eve- j ry necessary information of measures pursued by it. And this had become the more necessary, not only as news papers, but also as gentlemen of very high respectability in the several states, firmly believed, and had positively as serted, that the two millions of dollars, appropriated by the act of the 21st Fe bruary, 1806, for the purchase of the Florida*, had actually been scat to France or Spain as a present. Gen. Smith said, that in his travels to the eastward, during the last recess, he found m any respactabl* persons as firm ly believing this report, as they did any lad known to them. To remove this impression from the public, (for this falsehood is universally circulated) he moved the following resolution : Resolved, That the President be re quested to direct the proper officers to report to this House the measures which have been adopted to carry into j execution, the “ act of congress of 21st j of February, 1806, appropriating two; millions of .dollars for defraying any cx- j traordinary expenses attending the in- 1 tercourse between the United States and ! foreign nations,” particularly whether • the said two millions of dollars, or any portion thereof was sent in specie or by bids of exchange to eit: er France, Spain, Holland, or any other country for the purpose of carrying into cxecu. tion the said act, and also te what 00. ! jtct the tumt so remitted have been ap plied, or were authorised or intended to be applied. Ordered to lie on the table. Gen. Smith said, that no gentleman in this House believed this report, be cause each one knows that not one cent of this money was ever drawn out of the .treasury in specie or by bills, or in any other manner. HOUSE OF REPI'.ESEK TATIVES. Monday, January 16. The House went into committee of the whole on the bill for dividing the Indiana Territory into two separate go vernments—Mr. Willis Allston in the chair. Several amendments were made and reported by the Chairman to the House, and the bill was ordered to be engrossed for a third leading to morrow. The House resumed the considera tion of the amendments proposed by the Senate, to the bill entitled “ an act r.u thorising the appointment ancl employ ment of an additional number of navy officers, seamen and marines;” where upon 1 he first amendment, to which the committee of tha whole House reporttd their disagree ment on the 13th in*t. be ing again read it the clerk’s table, in the words following, to wit: 'iec. 1, line 2—Alter Use word “ as st milled,” inst.il as follows: that there be fitted out, officered, manned, and em ployed, *s soon as may be, all the fri gates and other armed vessels of tile United States, and gun-boats: That the President of the United States be authorised and empowered to cause the frigates and armed vessels, so soon as they cm be prepared for actual service, j respectively, to be stationed a! such ! • ports ancl places on the sea coast, a* he j may deem most expedient, or to cruise j f,n any part of the coast of the United j Stales, or teriitories thereof, an:.’’— | After considerable discussion, the ! question was taken, that the House do j concur with the committee of tire whole ; House in their disagreement to the said ; first amendment; and it wts earned in the affirmative—yens 68--nays 1 hi* decided the fate of eli the olker amendments from the Senate, winch were successively voted out; and the • bill, precisely in the shape it had ori- j ginadly gone to the Senate, was before 1 the House, when an adjournment wus ! called for and carried. From tee Newport Mercury. LOCKED JAW, . For the benefit of mankind, a corrcs- j pondent wishes to communicate th? fob ; lowing narative to the public ; —That ! some years past, spending an evening ! with m friend, a very respectable master j of a ship—a man of great information, j I and acquired by reading and visiting many different countries, the conversa tion happened to turn upon that dread ful malady the Locked Jaw, when he j observed, that some time before, he had , been on a voyage te the Island of St. Eustatia, and while there, became ac quainted with a physician of the first ! eminence, on that Island. »nd that he J j heard him observe, in company, up the subject ol the Locked Jaw, whirl. ! i wa* introduced in the course of conv, r i sation, by a person present, that he had, during his practice, many ca.es, and j that he had never lost a patient witi. it. ! This assertion surprized the Captain, I and led him to enquire of the Physician, ! his particular mode of treatment, in which he had been so successful—to ; which he readily replied—-Ti.at he di : rented nn application of worm 1 ,ey, • made of ashss, as strong as possible; if the foot, or hand, was wounded, the same to be dipped repeatedly into the Ley—and if a part rs the body which could not be immersed in it. then in that case, the part affected to be bail ed with flannels wrung out from the warm Ley. In couscquence of the like remark being recollected to have been heard by a Latly, who lived in the j Captain’s family, the following facts are now communicated to the public, with a pleasing hope, that they may prove beneficial to some unhappy ob ject, at a future day : j Captain Charlis Gortow, of this j town, master of a vessel, aged 30 years.. | active and enterprising, being busied | about his vessel on the 25th day of July, , 1807, the weather warm, on some occa ; sion, jumped, with great agility, from I her side, which was high above the j wharf where she lay, very unfortunately ! upon a very heavy pl«nk, from wiiicf projected a rusty spike six inches iu length, and with a scraggy point, wit.i such force, that the spike pierced taro the sml of a pair of boots he thn had on, almost new, and would have gone quilt through his foot had not the up p«.r leathtr of hi 1 ; boot prevented , every exertion of Iris own to extricate himself from the plank, to which he was thus pinned fast, failing, two stout men, who wete on the vkharf, being called to his assistance, with great dif ficulty relieved him. In the most cxci u tialiag torture he was assisted in getting home, a physician was called in, and administered, but without effect, when the aforementioned Lady, hearing of tha accident, very humanely repaired to cap*., Gorton’s house, a: d recom mended a trial of the Ley, which was immediately procured from a -leech, which had been luckily set in the fami ly e few days before ; his wounded foot w'as put into the Ley, previously warm ed, and surprising was the effect: with in fifteen minutes the anguish was en tirely taken cut ; he went to bod and siept quietly. The next, mu! for ten days, morning and evening, the applica tion of the Ley was mack- ; no p; in nor uneasy Sensation returned, but what is incident to a common sore ; and on the eleventh d,y, captain Gorton walked abroad Query, was not the Locket? Jaw prevented, and his life, in all bu rn .n probability, saved by the applies | lion of tiie Ley ? He has net the Last i doubt of it himself and is rsadv to at * j tt»l to the (ruib of the above narration. ; Communicated to the Senate by the Fresi j dent y on the 2-7th December , 1808. : Recapitulation of Vessels permitted to proceed to Foreign Ports, under the Lmbargo Laws between the 22d De cember, 1807, and 30th September, I 808. For in. Number oj Vessels. With Cargo'* • Portsmouth. 7 4 M< vvbury port, 8 6 Gloucester, i 3 Salem, 22 14 Marblehead, 4 2 Boston, 44 28 Plymouth, 1 i Lhghton, 1 1 i ' d ft, «■ 3 2 Kei.nebuiik, 4 2 v rco, 2 1 Portland, 4 4 Wise asset, 11 . Newport, 6 6 j Providence, 30 22 ; P'istbl, 25 23 Now-London, *3 •» 29 Middie town, 17 13 Nevv-Hav n> 13 12 New-Yoik; .180 jis Hitfsotr, 11 PeiMi-A<nbby, 1 1 Pbslich lphja, 65 48 ' Wilmington, (Del.) 1 l | Baltimore, 31 23 ! Georg* town Col. 11 j Norfolk,l7 14 ! Alexandria, 4 1 | Wilmington, N. C. i 1 New lit ri:, N. C. 1 1 W ashington, N: C. 3 3 Charleston, 33 24 \ Savannah, 3 1 594 413 T hirty one ofthe foregoing Vessels sail- el in ballast—l 3 were prevented frr.n: proceeding—and 137 had not re -1 tunica on the 30th Sept. BURLING I ON, (Vt.) December 23. Go Sf-tuadav evening, the 4th instant, i information was received at the Custom* j House, on York si that a number of ; smug; ';ng boats nuwvo to pass that j night ; upon which li.e revenue sloop, i with j uuv.io. rofnu n under w.h, were j ordui •. d to beat up and anchor abe tit a i mill above the ( ustom House, in order j k* t. ko the boats as they passed. About 8 o’clock in the.evening,the wind being very high with heavy rain, they discev-' ertd a small sail going to the north. She was hailed and fired upon from the sloop, but did nut heave- too. The sloop slipped her cable and gave chase, kept a continual fire upon the boat, and final ly came up with her, ar.d look her in Roust’s bay, near the lines. She was loaded with three or four tierces. 1 V. kde tiie revtnue sloop, wi:h pursuing tiie bool, and when passing Windmill Point, she v.as fired upon by the artil lery and guards belonging to captain EasteiY.rnok’s company, and the slice st. uc.k on cveiy side of her. The Cus tom House troops and inhabitants on the West side, foi a miie in front, were ell equally exposed ; but as good fortune wi uld have it, there was no harm dine. It is stated that whi.e they were firing upon their own men a number of smug glit.'g boats made their escape. BLAIsLS ci every description executed dX th.a V ft Su'.d diapkteh*
